thanks -I'll take a look at all this.. michael --- On Sat, 3/5/11, James Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: James Morris <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] into the color flow - Jonathan McCabe > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, March 5, 2011, 11:45 AM > see also: > > http://mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction%E2%80%93diffusion_system > > > > > On 5 March 2011 11:39, James Morris <[email protected]> > wrote: > > That's a good point. Did you look at any of his other > pieces, the > > black & white ones for example?They still suffer > from the same > > criticism, but at least they don't look so much like > candy floss ;-) > > > > I took a look at his website and found a 4.8mb PDF > which I started to > > believe was going to explain everything. Unfortunately > that weight was > > taken mostly with images. > > > > http://jonathanmccabe.com/Cyclic_Symmetric_Multi-Scale_Turing_Patterns.pdf > > > > Here's the link which introduced me: > > > > http://www.algorithmic-worlds.net/blog/blog.php?Post=20110227 > > > > He's not mentioned until right at the bottom. > > > > James. > > > > > > On 5 March 2011 11:22, Michael Szpakowski <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It would be really interesting to see how, > concretely, the maths and the programming that create this > interact. > >> The description doesn't give us any sense of this, > or how much "voluntaristic" initial artist input there is - > surely *some* initial conditions must be specified -colours, > co-ordinates, whatever? > >> As it stands the description verges on arm waving > & mystification... > >> It all looks *quite nice* in a theme-parky kind of > way. Maybe, with an appreciation of the pains the artist > took to get to it, it could provide some nourishment - at > the moment, for me at least, it's candyfloss and no more... > >> michael > >> > >> --- On Fri, 3/4/11, James Morris <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> From: James Morris <[email protected]> > >>> Subject: [NetBehaviour] into the color flow - > Jonathan McCabe > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> Date: Friday, March 4, 2011, 11:50 PM > >>> "Three processes interact to make > >>> this animation. A spontaneous > >>> differentiation due to a multi-scale Turing > instability > >>> causes the > >>> development of dots and lines of various > colors. Each color > >>> is also a > >>> movement, leading to a compressible flow which > smears and > >>> obliterates > >>> the dots and lines. The third process is an > overall > >>> exponential growth > >>> or inflation. Small structures expand, and the > Turing > >>> instability > >>> causes sub-structures to form. " > >>> > >>> http://vimeo.com/20012585 > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> NetBehaviour mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> NetBehaviour mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > _ > > : http://jwm-art.net/ > > -audio/image/text/code/ > > > > > > -- > _ > : http://jwm-art.net/ > -audio/image/text/code/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
